Monday, March 15, 2010

One Wall Street



I fell off this building in 1988 while conducting a facade survey. Safety harnesses are wonderful things.

11 comments:

M. Bouffant said...

Slow down, you're posting too fast!

N__B said...

Four posts in five months?

Dragon-King Wangchuck said...

Sounds like a big job, surveying facades around Wall Street.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

N__B draft results are in!

Nice job... I owe you a beer.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

I hate facade inspections.

But they pay...

N__B said...

Sounds like a big job, surveying facades around Wall Street.

NYC has an inspection law that provides a lot of work for those of us willing to do it.

zombie rotten mcdonald said...

Milwaukee put the same kind of law into effect a few years back, after a piece of a building fell off.

Substance McGravitas said...

HA HA!

Um, the falling AND the hi-speed blogging.

N__B said...

Hey, the falling remains the coolest moment in my career, not least because I retained control of both my bladder and my bowel.

Interrobang said...

Speaking as someone who worked two years in occupational health and safety, thanks for wearing your fall restraints. I can't express how crazy it makes me to see people working up high, untethered.

N__B said...

I can't express how crazy it makes me to see people working up high, untethered.

My personal favorite is guys who tie the harness leash to the scaffold rail. Or maybe the ones who tie the safety line to a cast-iron toilet vent pipe.